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Design, Manufacturing and Analysis of Robotic Arm with SCARA
Configuration
Kaushik Phasale
1
, Praveen Kumar
2
, Akshay Raut
3
, Ravi Ranjan Singh
4
, Amit Nichat
5
1,2,3,4
Students,
5
Assitant Proffesor, Deparatment of Mechanical Engineering, JSPM’s Bhivarabai Sawant Institute of
Technology & Research, Wagholi, Pune, Maharasthra, India.
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Abstract - This paper deals with the DzDesign,
Manufacturing and Analysis of Robotic Arm with SCARA
Configurationdz. In the modern world, robotics has become
popular, useful and has achieved great successes in several
fields of humanity. Every industrialist cannot afford to
transform his unit from manual to semi-automatic or fully
automatic as automation is not that cheap in India. The basic
objective of this project is to develop a versatile and low cost
robotic arm which can be utilized for Pick and Place
operation. Here controlling of the robot has been done by
using servo drives and arduino microcontroller. This robot is
having 4 DOF and controlled by android app with Bluetooth
interfacing. This Robotic arm can be used in number of
applications by changing the program of controller and end
effector, so that it would be used mainly in the automatic
assembly lines.
Key Words: SCARA, Degree of Freedom (DOF), Arduino,
Bluetooth Interfacing, Design, Manufacturing, Analysis.
1.INTRODUCTION
The purpose of using robotic arm is to reduce errors and
human efforts. As the robotic field is having an application in
various department of engineering such as production,
inspection, material handling etc. This type of robotic arm is
famous for its characteristics like high speed, good accuracy,
less maintenance and repeatability in pick and place
operation which is required in assembly. This case study is
concern with design, manufacturing and analysis of
mechanical structure of SCARA. The SCARA stands for
Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm having 4 degrees
of freedom in which one is linear motion and three rotational
motions.
This robotic arm is electrically actuated by using DC servo
motors for achiving three rotational motions and one DC
geared motors for linear vertical motion. These motors are
controlled by C-programming language in Arduino Genuino
1.8.5 software as required for pick and place operation of
object having dimensions 20x20x50mm. To command the
robotic arm by using mobile android app, Bluetooth module
HC05 is used which make it user friendly and ease of giving
task.
2. LITERATURE REVIEW
1. Design and Fabrication of Pick and Place Robot to be
used in Library by Anusha Ronanki, M. Kranthi:
The use of robots in library is becoming more popular in
recent years. The trend seems to continue as long as the
robotics technology meets diverse and challenging needs in
educational purpose. The prototype consists of robotic arm
along with grippers capable of moving in the three axes and
an ATMEGA 8 microcontroller. Software such as AVR Studio
is used for programming, PROTESUS is used for simulation
and PROGISP is used for dumping the program. RFID is used
for identifying the books and it has two IR Sensors for
detecting the path. This robot is about 4 kg in weight and it is
capable of picking and placing a book of weight one kg.s.
2. ROBOT ARM CONTROL WITH ARDUINO By
Abdellatif Baba
Today, technology is developing in the same direction in
line with rapidly increasing human needs. The work done to
meet these needs makes life easier every day, and these
studies are concentrated in robotic arm studies. Robot arms
work with an outside user or by performing predetermined
commands. Nowadays, the most developed field of robot
arms in every field is the industry and medicine sector.
Designed and realized in the project, the robot arm has the
ability to move in 4 axis directions with 5 servo motors.
Thanks to the holder, you can take the desired material from
one place and carry it to another place, and also mix it with
the material it receives. While doing this, robot control is
provided by connecting to the android application via
Bluetooth module connected to Arduino Nano
microcontroller.
3. Pick and Place Robotic Arm Implementation Using
Arduino Ashly Baby1 , Chinnu Augustine2, Chinnu Thampi3,
Maria George4 , Abhilash A P5 ,Philip C Jose6
A robotic arm is designed using arduino to pick and place
the objects via user commands. It will pick and place an
object from source to destination safely. The soft catching
gripper used in the arm will not apply any extra pressure on
the objects. The robot is controlled using android based
smart phones through Bluetooth. Based on the commands
given by the user the robot moves accordingly. At the
receiver end there are four motors interfaced with the micro
controller. Two for the vehicle movement and the remaining
two are for arm and gripper movement. Blue control
application is used for the controlling of robot. Keywords:
Pick and place robotic arm, Blue control app, soft catching
gripper